CTF Detailed Challenge Guide

Challenge Grade
Essential An essential question should be provocative, open-ended and challenging;
go to the heart of the subject; and arise from meaningful and authentic
Estimated
Question learning opportunities. (Creating Essential Questions, Watershed Project: Challenge
Craft the Driving Question, Crafting Questions That Drive Projects, Driving
Question.) Time
All outcomes in the CTF Program of Studies should be addressed in each CTF challenge.

Challenge
Description
Scenario A scenario stimulates a desire for students to investigate the challenge. This is the hook that fosters
student engagement. The intent is to create a need to know for students that generates curiosity and
interest.

Occupational BUSINESS
Areas Computing Science Financial Management Management & Marketing
Enterprise & Innovation Information Processing Networking
(Select at least two
to explore.)
COMMUNICATION
Communication Technology Design Studies Fashion Studies

HUMAN SERVICES
Community Care Services Foods Legal Studies
Cosmetology Health Care Services Recreation Leadership
Esthetics Human & Social Services Tourism

RESOURCES
Agriculture Forestry Wildlife
Environmental Stewardship Primary Resources

TECHNOLOGY
Construction Fabrication Mechanics
Electro-Technologies Logistics

Links between Use the CTF Occupational Areas and Possible Occupations resource to help you describe how the
occupational selected occupational areas are addressed in this challenge.
areas and this
challenge
Skills, Identify the occupational area skills, knowledge and technologies your students could explore in this
Knowledge and challenge. The document CTF Occupational Area Skills, Knowledge and Technologies Lists may be a
helpful resource.
Technologies
Related to the
Occupational
Areas

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Safety and/or Identify the potential safety and environmental concerns that should be addressed in this challenge. The
Environmental document CTF Safety and Environmental Considerations for Occupational Areas may be a helpful
resource.
Concerns
Remember to follow your schools and/or districts safety requirements at all times.

Facility Type Describe what kind of room or facility best suits this challenge.

Equipment List the equipment and/or consumables that are necessary for this challenge.
and/or [Example: computer, printer, table saw, sewing machine, recycled milk jugs, coloured pencils,
Consumables newspapers, graph paper]

Interdisciplinary SUBJECTS
Learning English Language Arts Health and Life Skills Religious Education
Opportunities Fine Arts Mathematics Science
(CTF challenges can French Language Arts Outdoor Education Social Studies
be stand-alone French Second Language Physical Education Other
courses or
interdisciplinary.)

Interdisciplinary Learning Outcomes

What subject area learning outcomes will be addressed through this challenge?

CTF Learning Outcomes: Identify the learning outcomes from the CTF Program of Studies that will be
addressed in this challenge.
I explore my interests and passions while making personal connections to career possibilities.
I use occupational area skills, knowledge and technologies.
I follow safety requirements associated with occupational areas and related technologies.
I demonstrate environmental stewardship associated with occupational areas.
I plan in response to challenges.
I make decisions in response to challenges.
I adapt to change and unexpected events.
I solve problems in response to challenges.
I create products, performances or services in response to challenges.
I appraise the skills, knowledge and technologies used to respond to challenges.
I communicate my learning.
I determine how my actions affect learning.
I develop skills that support effective relationships.
I collaborate to achieve common goals.

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Competencies: Identify the competencies that will be addressed in this challenge.
Know how to learn
Think critically
Identify and solve complex problems
Manage information
Innovate
Create opportunities
Apply multiple literacies
Demonstrate good communication skills and the ability to work cooperatively with others
Demonstrate global and cultural understanding
Identify and apply career and life skills

Literacy and Numeracy: Identify how the challenge supports the development of literacy and numeracy.
Literacy is the ability, confidence and willingness to engage Numeracy is the ability, confidence and willingness to
with language to acquire, construct and communicate engage with quantitative or spatial information to make
meaning in all aspects of daily living. informed decisions in all aspects of daily living.

Students recognize that literacy provides enjoyment
and enables them to make sense of and participate in
the world around them.
Students identify what they know, are able to do
and need to learn when engaging in tasks that involve
literacy.
Students are aware of the literacy demands within a
tack.
Students use rules of language to acquire, construct
and communicate meaning.
Students use efficient and effective strategies to
acquire, evaluate and ethically use information.
Students use efficient and effective strategies to
construct meaning.
Students communicate to convey concepts, ideas
and understandings.
Students recognize that numeracy enables people
to make informed decisions in all aspects of daily living.
Students identify what they know, are able to do
and need to learn when engaging in tasks that involve
numeracy.
Students are aware of the numeracy demands
within a task.
Students apply knowledge of quantitative
information to make an informed decision.
Students apply knowledge of spatial information to
make an informed decision.
Students interpret, represent and communicate in a
variety of digital and non-digital formats to support
decisions in situations involving numeracy.
Students use efficient and effective strategies and
methods or tools to manage quantitative or spatial
information.

Assessments: These should include opportunities for students to reflect on and communicate their learning.
The document CTF Classroom Assessment Tool may be a helpful resource.

Formative Assessments Summative Assessments

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Resources: Identify potentially useful resources for teaching and learning the challenge.
Resources that can assist in creating CTF challenges:
Buck Institute
Focus on Inquiry
Galileo Educational Network
Inquiry and Project-based Learning at Rocky View Schools
Any resources are provided as a service to identify potentially useful ideas for teaching and learning. The responsibility to evaluate these
resources rests with the user. Note: All website addresses listed were confirmed as accurate at the time of publication and are subject to
change.

Books and Articles

Websites and Multimedia

Student Handouts

Challenge Plan at a Glance: Provide a general outline that describes how the challenge unfolds.
Lesson #: Time Allotted: min.

Objective
Learning
Outcomes
Competency
Literacy and
Numeracy
Elements

Assessment
Resources
Notes

External resources are not authorized but are provided as a service to identify potentially useful ideas for teaching and learning.
The responsibility to evaluate these resources rests with the user. Note: All website addresses listed were confirmed as accurate at
the time of publication but are subject to change.

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